This day in history

Today is Monday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2024. There are 337 days left in the year.

Birthdays: Feminist author Germaine Greer is 85. Actor Katharine Ross is 84. Actor Tom Selleck is 79. R&B singer Bettye LaVette is 78. Actor Marc Singer is 76. Actor Ann Jillian is 74. Rock musician Louie Perez of Los Lobos is 71. R&B singer Charlie Wilson is 71. Talk show host Oprah Winfrey is 70. Olympic gold-medal diver Greg Louganis is 64. Actor Nicholas Turturro is 62. Rock singer-musician Roddy Frame of Aztec Camera is 60. Actor-director Edward Burns is 56. Actor Sam Trammell is 55. Former House speaker Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, is 54. Actor Sara Gilbert is 49. Writer and TV personality Jedediah Bila is 45. Poprock singer Adam Lambert is 42.

▸In 1820, King George III died at Windsor Castle at age 81; he was succeeded by his son, who became King George IV.

▸In 1919, the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, establishing the prohibition of alcohol, was certified by Acting Secretary of State Frank L. Polk.

▸In 1936, the first inductees of baseball’s Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.

▸In 1963, poet Robert Frost died in Boston at age 88. A memorial service would be held at Amherst College, home to the Robert Frost Library.

▸In 1964, Stanley Kubrick’s nuclear war satire “Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” premiered in New York, Toronto, and London.

▸In 1979, President Carter formally welcomed Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping to the White House following the establishment of diplomatic relations.

▸In 1998, a bomb rocked an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing security guard Robert Sanderson and critically injuring nurse Emily Lyons. (The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence.)

▸In 2002, in his first State of the Union address, President George W. Bush said terrorists were still threatening America — and he warned of “an axis of evil” consisting of North Korea, Iran, and Iraq.

▸In 2007, Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was euthanized because of medical complications eight months after his gruesome breakdown at the Preakness Stakes.

▸In 2013, the Justice Department ended its criminal probe of the Deepwater Horizon disaster and Gulf of Mexico oil spill, with a US judge agreeing to let London-based oil giant BP PLC plead guilty to manslaughter charges for the deaths of 11 rig workers and pay a record $4 billion in penalties.

▸In 2017, six people were killed in a shooting at a Quebec City mosque during evening prayers. (Alexandre Bissonnette, who was arrested nearby, pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder charges and was sentenced to life in prison.)